architectureIntroduced by Set Transformer · 2018

Inducing-point attention (learned latents)

A few learned vectors attend to a large set and summarise it: the idea behind later resamplers and query transformers.

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How this idea evolved

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2014
Bahdanau attention Attention mechanism
Let a decoder look back at the most relevant input positions instead of one fixed vector.
Cites · not yet reviewedcited 5× · §Model Architecture
“Most competitive neural sequence transduction models have an encoder-decoder structure [5, 2, 35].”
From Transformer · §Model Architecture
2017
Transformer Self-attention
Every token attends to every other token, weighted by learned query–key similarity.
Cites · not yet reviewedcited 3× · §Introduction
“Transformer, (Vaswani et al. 2017)).”
From Set Transformer · §Introduction
2018
Set Transformer Inducing-point attention (learned latents)
A few learned vectors attend to a large set and summarise it: the idea behind later resamplers and query transformers.